Dear Emmanuel,
>> The bug depends on "Catalina" being writable; the permissions on
>> "localhost" are irrelevant.
>
> The postinst script no longer runs chmod 755 on the localhost directory.
> If I'm not mistaken this fixes the issue you reported.
>
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-java/tomcat8.git/commit/?id=02570d6
>
> The script still chmods the Catalina directory but this one can't be
> replaced by a symlink.

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You are mistaken. Please re-read the original bug report.
Cheers, Paul
Paul Szabo p...@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia